[Serusers] ebay to pay $4 billion for skype [OT]

[Corey S. McFadden]

Meg Whitman was on CNBC this morning via phone to describe what they're 
actually thinking and apparently they want to brand eBay/Skype on 
the calls and do a pay-for-calls from buyers for the sellers on the site.  
They also talked a lot about a translation service they're doing where 
they hook up a third party who has registered as a translator...  I guess 
15% of eBay transactions cross a border or language barrier or something.

Still seems like an expensive acquisition though.

-Corey


On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Iqbal wrote:

> well I guess there's hope for all the VOIP companies/entrepreneurs on 
> this list...if anyone makes a billion, feel free to make donation, I 
> accept all kinds of currencies :-)
> 
> good luck
> 
> Iqbal
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